Pension Application of Thomas McClure: W8429
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of
On this day personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Janet McClure a resident of the County of Scott State of Kentucky Aged eighty fife years who being unable by reason of bodily infirmity to appear in Court being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836 That she is the widow of Thomas McClure who was a Soldier on the Virginia line during the war of the Revolution. In consequence of her great age and loss of memory she is unable specify particular periods of his services but do well know he was in the services more than three years and was in various battles and was in the battle fought at Guilford Court House South [sic: North] Carolina and was in the engagement under Captain Marrow at the time he was slain in battle and in various other engagements during the war of the revolution Many of the circumstances which transpired at this great length of time she is unable to detail and many of the papers of her husband have been lost and destroyed and she now presents his discharge which shows that he belonged to Captain Mills Company and Colonel Green Ridgement [sic: probably Lt. Col. John Greene’s Virginia Regiment] and was Honorable Discharged on the 23 day of March 1781 and she refers to this and the Record, as the only evidence in her power to produce and prays that a pension may be granted to her a poor widow of the Revolution who husband has spent the pain of his life in the services of his Country and left her poor and entirely dependent She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas McClure in Botetourt County State of Virginia on the thirtieth day March seventeen hundred and seventy eight and the best evidence she is able to provide of her marriage is her family record of the ages of her children Her first child died in her infancy and she has no record of her age her second was her son John who was borne on the tenth day of August seventeen hundred and eighty The foregoing before is her true and genuine family record of the ages of her children all of which was borne after her marriage to their father the said Thomas McClure and her husband the aforesaid Thomas McClure died on the tenth day of November eighteen hundred and eighteen and she has remained a widow ever since his death as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed Given from under my hand this 27 day of December 1858 Jane her X mark McClure
John McCluer was born the 10th of August 1780
Caty McCluer was born the 24th of January 1783
Nathaniel McCluer was born the 8th day of November 1784
Nancy McCluer was born the 6th of September 1786
Jinny McCluer was born the 12th of May 1788
Betty McCluer was born the 14th of February 1790
William McCluer was born the 6th of September 1792
Peggy MCluer was born the 6th of January 1796